Improvement in paper-files



6. MASON. Paper-Files.

I Wimesses:

O r a AM PHOTO-L nwosRAPu/c an m: (osaonnsi UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

CHARLES MASON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER-FILES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,692, dated J une 3, 1873; application filed April 1-2, 1873.

To all tvhom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES Mason, of

the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Paper-Filer, of which the following is a specification: In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my paper-filer as applied to a bundle of papers; and Fig. 2 a perspective view of the same detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. i

The object of my invention is. to furnish to merchants and business men a cheap, durable,

and convenient paper-filer, by which letters, bills, checks, or other papers may bequickly and neatly filed and compactly held together. Any paper filed may also be easily taken out and replaced, and the heading revised, making it especially useful for banks, insurance companies, and others. My invention consists of a device bent of suitable wire or other metal in such a manner that the top part holds, in connection with the spring action of the bottom and side parts, the papers placed on file between them.

In the drawing, A represents the top part of the file; B, the side legs or supports, constructed of wire of suitable strength, or other metal. The top part A forms the connectingbridge, toward which the abutting sides press by the spring action given them by bending. The top part A consists of the part a, running lon gitudinall y with the folded papers near the edgetat one side thereof, and sides b bent under right angles to part a, and extending laterally to the other side of the papers. The

extension of sides I) and their bending in a plane vertical to that of the top part A produces the side and bottom supports B. The thickness or depth d of the bundle is obtained by bending under a right angle from sides b at such length as desired. By again bending under an oblique angle to the former the bottom rests e are obtained, which are of about the width of the papers as usually folded for filing.

The spring action of the bottom rests 0 against the top is produced and more or less increased by bending more obliquely the bottom-rests d against the top part A. The ends as new and desire to secure by Letters Patenti The paper filer, formed of the two right angled end portions (1 cf, and connecting por- V tion a b, the said parts forming spring-jaws, as shown and described.

' CHARLES MASON.

' Witnesses 2,;

PAUL GoEPnL, T. B. MOSHEB. 

